Newton’s Third Law
What Newton’s Third Law means in Combined Science GCSE, as defined for AQA.
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When two objects interact, they exert equal and opposite forces on each other, and these two forces act on different objects, so they do not cancel.
Whenever two objects interact, the forces they exert on each other are equal and opposite.
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